What if the biggest danger to the church of Jesus Christ is not blatant heresy, the moral failures of church leaders, persecution, the rise of Islam or the loss of our rights? What if the biggest threat is counterfeit gospels within the church - ways of thinking and speaking about the good news that lead to a gradual drift from the truth of Scripture?
In this book, Trevin Wax aims to so deepen our love for the unchanging gospel of Jesus Christ that we would easily see through the many counterfeits that leave us impoverished. He exposes six common counterfeits - Therapeutic, Judgmentless, Moralist, Quietist, Activist and Churchless - that would get us off track.
"Evangelicals are rightly asking today, what is the gospel which we believe in and proclaim? Trevin Wax in this wonderfully readable and irenic book helps us sort out the issues, showing us that the gospel announcement is truncated if one does not understand the gospel story and if the gospel is not fleshed out in our churches."
- Thomas R. Schreiner, James Buchanan Harrison Professor of New Testament Interpretation, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Counterfeit Gospels: Rediscovering the Good News in a World of False Hope is in the following collections:
